0750 The Skoll Foundation is celebrating social entrepreneurship this week. We speak to former US president, Jimmy Carter and to Jeff Skoll, first president of eBay. Listen to the extended interview here.
Examples of some of Recipients of Skoll Awards for Social Enterpreneurship
Kashf Foundation
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http://www.kashf.org.pkSocial Entrepreneur: Roshaneh Zafar Grant Amount: $1,015,000 over three years Award Year: 2007 |
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A chance meeting with Muhammad Yunus inspired Roshaneh Zafar to quit her job and establish the Kashf Foundation in 1996. Ignoring warnings that a microfinance program focusing on women would not work in Pakistan, she enlisted the help of five women and used her own family’s funds to start microfinance centers. Kashf delivers collateral-free microloans, savings and life insurance products to poor women through branches that become sustainable within 18 months. Thirty-five percent of its clients move out of poverty within three years. Kashf made 228,603 loans during 2006, has 135,797 clients and maintains a recovery rate of 99.9 percent. It intends to expand operations to 1 million clients by 2010.
KickStart (formely ApproTEC)
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www.kickstart.orgSocial Entrepreneurs: Martin Fisher and Nick Moon Grant Amount: $615,000 over three years to help expand the distribution of irrigation devices into new markets in developing countries Award Year: 2005 |
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Martin Fisher and Nick Moon founded Appropriate Technologies for Enterprise Creation (ApproTEC) in 1991 and renamed it KickStart in 2005. The organization promotes sustainable economic growth and employment by developing and promoting technologies that can be used to run profitable small-scale enterprises. Working in developing countries in Africa, KickStart introduced low-cost, human-powered irrigation pumps that enable farmers to grow more crops and sell produce in the dry season, when prices are high and supply is low. Since its inception, KickStart has helped farmers start 36,000 new businesses in Kenya, Tanzania and Mali that collectively generate more than $38 million in new profits and wages per year. The new revenues are equivalent to 0.5 percent and 0.2 percent of the Gross Domestic Product of Kenya and Tanzania, respectively. Skoll funding will help KickStart strengthen its operations, develop two new products and reach 50,000 more clients.
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